Student Aid

November 30, 1985|By Compiled from Sentinel services by John Gholdston.

BIBLE SCHOOL. A blind student, denied state and federal vocational rehabilitation aid because he is studying for the ministry, contends through his attorneys the action violates his free exercise of religion. The case, involving Larry Witters, a student at the non-denominational Inland Empire School of the Bible in Seattle, is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Witters was denied aid on grounds it would advance religion, a position upheld by Washington's state Supreme Court. Arguing Witters' case before the nation's highest court, attorney Michael P. Farris claimed there was ''no justification to single out ministerial students for exclusion'' from vocational aid.